Can a person who is blind receive an aliyah?  The question, from a conceptual and analytic point of view, is how to understand the post-Talmudic practice of having one person (the one receiving the aliyah) making a brakha on the Torah, and having another person (the shaliach tzibbur) doing the actual reading from the scroll. … Continue reading Can a Person Who Is Blind Receive an Aliyah?: A Teshuva of Maseit Binyamin